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Where could you be financially if …
… you had avoided some or all of those red arrows? 🤔 Your Financial Independence depends on your sense of personal autonomy. What does it mean to have a strong sense of personal autonomy? Personal autonomy is defined as the…
If you panic, panic first
One rule in the stock market is: “If you panic, panic first!” It’s about first-mover advantage under extreme pressure. Bull markets make you feel smarter than you really are.Bear markets make you feel dumber than you really are. It’s almost…
How geographically distributed is your portfolio?
This map isn’t just a visual – it’s a signal of where future growth lies. Over the past few years, geopolitical shifts, supply chain realignments, & the rise of new consumer classes have been redrawing the global business map. It…
I have read 269 books – so you don’t have to.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝟲 books 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲. A well-researched non-fiction book is the single most info-dense piece of culture in existence, full stop. Some author spent a few years — hell, a decade, sometimes — gathering material, sifting through it,…
Who is right about your money?
Traditional Economists or Self-help authors? So the question is whether popular finance books give the same valuable advice as academic economists. Economist & Finance professor James J. Choi was so interested in this question that he surveyed the 50 most…
Pep Talk – Holding Stocks is the hardest part
Holding is the hardest part because it combines ALL the feelings & potential regrets that can arise from both buying & selling. Buying is the easy part of buy-and-hold. Anyone can buy-and-hope. It’s the hold part that’s hard. It was…
ROE – Return on Effort
No one will ever sell me a get-rich-slow plan (because it wouldn’t sell very well), but it’s the only one that consistently works.
Financial Nihilism – don’t do it
“There’s no point in saving for the future because we’re going to have war, revolution, and it’s all going to come to a violent end.” I’ve also heard that young people aren’t saving for retirement either (because “there is no…
My Stock Market Forecast for 2025
Because I have a 100% success rate with my previous stock market forecasts & because it’s kind of a tradition here we go again. But first, let’s ponder on this: I’ve long believed that forecasts can be valuable even when…
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